WASHINGTON: The United Sates government has announced sanctions against seven Pakistani entities allegedly associated with the country’s missile programme, says an official notification.
The notification by the US Department of Commerce said that the entities added to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) list “have been determined by the US government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States”.
All seven have been placed on the entity list under the destination of Pakistan. They are identified as:
(1) Ahad International Suite 5-6, 2nd Floor, Empress Tower, Empress Road, Lahore, and 2nd Floor, Nomro Centre, Badami Bagh, Lahore.
(2) Air Weapons Complex (AWC) AWC: E-5, Officers Colony, Wah Cantonment.
(3) Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd 726, G-11/2, Ibne-Sina Road, Islamabad.
(4) Maritime Technology Complex (MTC) Plot 94, Karachi, and MTC System Division, PN Dockyard, Karachi.
(5) National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM) NESCOM Headquarter, Plot 94, Sector H-11/4, Islamabad.
(6) New Auto Engineering (NAE) NAE: 72, Industrial Area, Peshawar Road, Rawalpindi.
(7) Universal Tooling Services, a k a, the following three aliases: Forward Design and Manufacturing, MSM Enterprises and Technopak Engineering Deen Plaza, 68/62, Adamjee Road, Saddar P O Box 1640, GPO Rawalpindi; G-7, Nimra Centre 7, Badami Bagh, Lahore; 31/B Faisal Town, Lahore, Punjab; and Model Town, HMC Road, Taxila. Pakistan has always denied any wrongdoing in connection with its nuclear or missile programme, and it could not be verified if the names and addresses given were correct or in any way linked to the country’s missile programme.
